"hashed" password on alter login command

Hi,
I need to synchronise logins between 2 SQL2005 instances on a regular basis
- while you can copy the passwords to the destination using the "HASHED"
keyword on the CREATE LOGIN command, it appears that "HASHED" is missing fro
m
the ALTER LOGIN command. This means that I can't just update the password
when a user on the source instance changes the password on their SQL
authenticated account.
I also looked at using the transfer logins task in SSIS, but then read the
following in book online:
"At the destination, the transferred logins are disabled and assigned random
passwords. A member of the sysadmin role on the destination server must
change the passwords and enable the logins before the logins can be used. "
Apart from recording the login's roles, database access, and permissions,
dropping the login, creating with the hashed password, and re-applying the
roles/database access/permissions - has anybody found a way to just apply a
new hashed password to the login?
AndyHello Andy,
Thank you for posting in MSDN newsgroup!
I understand that you'd like to transfer logins and passwords between SQL
2005 instances. You just want to apply a new hashed password to the logins.
If I'm off-base, please let me know.
I think there is no simple method to apply a new hased password as you
want. You need to drop/recreate the logins by using script and grant it the
proper permission. You have to know the original password so that you could
change it to the new password by using "Alter login" statement.
You may want to refer to the following articles for more details:
How to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of SQL
Server 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918992/
HOW TO: Transfer Logins and Passwords Between Instances of SQL Server
(246133)
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...KB;EN-US;246133
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